wp wrote:Keffria: I've found out some crappy stuff Viz has done with Naruto.

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu becomes Art of the Doppleganger. Why can't they just say "Technique: Shadow Clone" like it's supposed to be? Byakugan (literally "white eyes") becomes "evil eye" even though "eye of sight" is a more accurate representation of what it actually does. Gaton: Goukyakuno Jutsu (I think it means Technique: Great Fireball or Dragon Breath, I forget) becomes "blaze of glory."

Geez, who decides on these horrible localizations? Do they think it sounds cooler?

I've noticed that too. In Shonen Jump, they changed Roronoa Zoro to Roronoa Zolo, so it matches the anime version (which sucks, to keep flaying a dead horse), and then I just picked one of the newer Ranma books, and the Shiryu Shouten Ha, which was at first translated as "Heaven Blast of the Dragon" is now "Heavenly Dragon Acension Wave", and the Happo-Daikarin, which was at first the "Happo-fire Burst" is now the "Ring of Fire". Changing techniques' names around like that is so NOT cool, even if the latter names are closer to the original meaning. They have some wrong people doing the wrong things in the wrong department, if you ask me.

Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse- reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor. Thus, the men who commited the atrocities of September 11 were neither cowards nor lunatics of any sort, but Men of Faith- perfect faith- and this, it must finally be acknowleged, is a terrible thing to be.

*Starts to put chibiartstudios in the Black List, ponder upon the point of said list since he's leaving the forums, puts him down anyway*

By the way, is IVstudios anything of yours? I see almost the same name, and then there's the physical resemblance...

Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse- reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor. Thus, the men who commited the atrocities of September 11 were neither cowards nor lunatics of any sort, but Men of Faith- perfect faith- and this, it must finally be acknowleged, is a terrible thing to be.

On another note: The only Anime I've seen where I've also read the manga are Trigun and Hellsing. (I may have said this before in another thread, I don't remember.) Both cases I saw the Anime first. And with Trigun, I'm glad I did because without it the Manga is almost incomprehensible. So in that case the Anime was actually better (IMHO).
The Hellsing Anime also rox sox, but in that case the manga is WAY cooler.